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Page xviii - Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you; Work, and despair not.
Page 60 - For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close...
Page 58 - MINUTELY trace man's life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear, And then, though some may in that life be strange, Yet there appears no vast nor sudden change: The links that bind those various deeds are seen, And no mysterious void is left between.
Page 92 - My dear Beach, — The only excuse I can find for Randolph is that he must either be mad or have been singularly affected with local champagne or claret.
Page 541 - ... it is undeniably the only form of political organisation which can collect, guide, and control for common objects large masses of electors; and there is nothing in this particular form of political combination which is in the least repugnant to the working classes in this country. The...
Page 114 - Nevertheless, a danger, in its ultimate results scarcely less disastrous than pestilence and famine, and which now engages your excellency's anxious attention, distracts that country. A portion of -its population is attempting to sever tlte constitutional tie which unites it to Great Britain in that bond which has favoured the power and prosperity of both.
Page 157 - I fully appreciate your feelings and those of your friends; but you must stick to Northcote. He represents the respectability of the party. I wholly sympathise with you all, because I never was respectable myself. In my time the respectability of the party was represented by * * * a horrid man ; but I had to do as well as I could; you must do the same.
Page 282 - PoetLaureate adorns the suite and receives a peerage as his reward, and the incidents of the voyage are luncheon with the Emperor of Russia and tea with the Queen of Denmark.
Page 294 - Its motto is — of the people, for the people, by the people ; unity and freedom are the beacons which shed their light around its future path, and amid all political conflict this shall be its only aim — to increase and to secure within imperishable walls the historic happiness of English homes.